Japan’s Ministry of Defense is contemplating the development of a system that can predict the spread of hazardous substances that could be released into the environment by terrorists or as the result of a natural disaster. The system would be … Read More

The U.S. Department of Defense will increase spending to combat the threat of biological weapons, such as the toxin ricin, in the wake of an assessment that a terror group might conduct a “limited” attack on U.S. soil within the … Read More

U.S. researchers are using computer programs to find new, and substantially safer, means of decontaminating deadly chemical and biological agents. A team from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California recently demonstrated that they can reduce the number of hazardous … Read More

Documents in the files of a recently settled Florida lawsuit detail how severely the U.S. Justice Department contradicted its own conclusions in its investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks. The investigation that eventually pointed to Bruce E. Ivins as the … Read More

The National Defense Authorization Act, recently signed into law by President Barack Obama, set lower spending levels and reflected delays in several biodefense programs. The NDAA reduced funding for the Chemical and Biological Defense Program by five percent, from nearly … Read More

Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins (R-Kansas) recently sent a letter to President Barack Obama asking for his continued support of plans to build a major biosafety level-4 animal disease research facility near Manhattan, Kansas. Current plans call for the National Bio and … Read More

The U.S. Army’s Deseret Chemical depot recently eliminated the last of its stockpile of mustard agent-filled projectiles. The depot was once home to the Army’s largest collection of chemical weapons – approximately 13,600 tons. It expects to have destroyed all … Read More

As the head of the G8 in 2012, the United States has assumed leadership of the organization’s three non-proliferation bodies. The United States now chairs the Non-proliferation Directors Group, the Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of … Read More

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently entered a contract with CUBRC, Inc., to aid in the development of a novel antibiotic to be used to treat the effects of biological warfare agents such as anthrax and plague. … Read More

Scientists studying a more transmissible strain of the H5N1 avian influenza virus have agreed to halt their research for 60 days out of concern that the virus they created could accidentally escape or be used as a devastating weapon of … Read More